This is a great achievement.

After trying Germania spear warband I finally had some courage with Greek phalanx tonight. I fired a Vh/Vh, patch 1.1 vanilla with huge unit size. 3 turn past, and I took 7 more regions.

The battles on Sicily, against Scipii and Carthage are great phalanx classics. I put my line into the following formation:

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The better hoplites stand at front, 3 ranks, and the poorer militia hoplites are close backups, 2 ranks. This way, when the enemy disrupt my formation at front and my men switched into daggers, their charged will be stopped and had to face spears of militia hoplites.

With this formation I Slaughtered the Scipii in turn 1, and on turn 2 killed almost every single Carthage unit on Sicily. The 2nd battle I had such a disadvantage so I decided to shameless camp at the corner. Even the elephants are slaughtered by this formation!

I also took a different approach than Zhuge. The starting army on Rhode - I sent them to Asia minor. So 2 forces on Asian minor will go both north and south. I didn't realize this until I check back this thread.

The sieges are just taking too long that I had a few save/loads on Corinth - all I got was 22 minutes. This was definitely not enough for a stone wall assault with phalanx... so I cheated again by taking the timer off. With timer off it is very easy to manipulate the AI, though.